Subject: Arlington

• School Ranking 101

  January 3, 2007

• And Don't Get Us Started on Junction Jack

  April 23, 2007

• Rocket-hater or Realist?

  May 2, 2007

• Chan Ho(me Run) Park

  June 13, 2007

• Well, Shoot, There Goes That Plan

  June 20, 2007

• That Hunter Pence Sure Is Dreamy. Too Bad the Game Was a Nightmare.

  June 21, 2007

• A Paean to Texas Blues in Arlington?

  September 27, 2007

• Slideshow: Baseball Parks Across America

  March 28, 2008

• What About the Camera Crew, People?

  August 6, 2008

• Chronicle Hops On The Obama Bandwagon

  October 20, 2008

• Remembering Boomhauer's Houston Sojourn

  November 3, 2008

• Local Film Commissions Hoping To Catch up To Louisiana

  The legislative session is only a month away, and Rick Ferguson knows exactly what he wants out of it -- a plan to help Texas, and Houston especially, catch up to the movie-making boom going on in Louisiana.Texas has fallen behind states like Louisiana and Michigan when it comes to offering financial incentives to companies seeking filming locations."Shreveport -- who would have thought, three years ago, that Shreveport, Louisiana would become a film mecca? Go figure, man," he tells Hair Balls.

  December 10, 2008

• What Is It About Houston and Burgers?

  More Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurants are on their way to Houston. Last August, Robb Walsh told you about the new chain location at 24004 Southwest Freeway in Rosenberg brought in by John Hooff who told us he plans 10 in all in Houston Now, the big kahuna Bob Dorfman, president of TCH (Tampa, Columbus, Houston) has hit town, ready to open two of what he says are the 50 franchise outlets he plans for the Houston area alone. (He's already in Tampa and this week is opening his first one in

  January 8, 2009

• Cutout Bin: Nathan Woodruff's This Is the Way I Feel

  Nathan Woodruff This Is the Way I Feel (Star Records, Dallas) This is the way Nathan Woodruff feels. A grinning, lopsided form of happy. It's the kind of happy that requires your most ruffled shirt and a bow tie tied just so. Nathan has the confidence to say, "I'll wait 'til after my big photoshoot to get a haircut." When you feel how Nathan Woodruff feels, there's no need to trim your sideburns. When you feel like this, you can say with a smile, "I'm going to put out a record of awful

  January 9, 2009

• Houston, Thank The Real-Estate Gods That You Don't Live In Florida

  You want some good economic news?Hmmm. Well, the best we can do is that the Houston area has officially been declared the third-least-risky real-estate market in the country.The PMI Group annually issues a list of markets that are most at risk of seeing home prices fall, and the 2008 report came out this afternoon. It sucked if you live in Florida, where four of the five riskiest markets were. Cities like Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and Orlando all have a better than 99 percent chance of seeing home v

  January 14, 2009

• Stadia Watch

  April 18, 1996

• Home Cooking

  October 24, 1996

• Bush's Big Score

  January 29, 1998

• Friends & Family Free at Five

    Photo courtesy of Lodigs. A "regular" sized cheeseburger at Five Guys Burgers and Fries.Get your grub on today -- for free! -- at the grand opening of Houston's first Five Guys Burgers and Fries at Bunker Hill and I-10.  All you have to do is become a fan of Five Guys at their Facebook fan page and free burgers and fries are yours, today only, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and in the evening from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Five Guys started out in Arlington, Virginia in 1986

  March 18, 2009

• Calling the Shots

  May 20, 1999

• Draught Dodger

  May 25, 2000

• Rumors Are Always True: U2 Hits Reliant Stadium October 14

  U2.comJust as Rocks Off suspected, U2 and Live Nation announced Tuesday evening that the Irish band's record-smashing 360 tour will stop at Reliant Stadium Wednesday, October 14, with "Supermassive Black Hole" UK space-rock trio Muse opening. Tickets for the Houston show - and, if you must, the October 12 date at Arlington's New Cowboys Stadium - go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, April 20. Further ticket information will be available shortly. Don't dawdle, either. To date, the 360 tour h

  April 8, 2009

• Punx-Mas Fest 3

  December 13, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  February 16, 2006

• Farewell to the Twenty Nickel

  Looking back on the '05 and dreaming in the '06

  December 29, 2005

• Ready to Rumble

  The Astros are on baseball's biggest stage, needing a comeback

  October 27, 2005

• Funtime Is Over

  It's the end of the road for AstroWorld

  October 6, 2005

• At the Ready

  The Minutemen have come to Texas

  August 18, 2005

• Swamp Thing

  The Skeleton Key unlocks a house that's haunted by camp

  August 11, 2005

• Playbill

  October 28, 2004

• Making Waves

  June 3, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  May 20, 2004

• Soldiers of Misfortune

  Ranch Rescue finds its welcome mat withdrawn

  September 18, 2003

• Hell on Earth

  Both sides in a Houston fight worship the same god: publicity

  September 4, 2003

• The Revelation of Jana

  Ex-Matty & Mossy singer Jana Hunter chases elusive obscurity

  February 20, 2003

• Around the Parks in 38 Days

  The Summer That Saved Baseball

  March 8, 2001

• Tresspassers Will Be Prosecuted

  Ranch Rescue's Jack Foote swears he just wants to mend fences. Is pseudomilitary secrecy, right-wing rhetoric and an armed vigilante militia the best way?

  March 1, 2001

• Letters

  Mono-Poly Wars, Donald's Demise, Holy Hypocrisy

  December 14, 2000

• Stadia Watch

  Sacrifice Flies

  January 6, 2000

• Learning Curves

  Charter school scandals are teaching Texas a hard lesson -- one the state should have known fouryears and $77 million ago

  July 22, 1999

• Stadia Watch

  August 15, 1996

• George Strait

  August 6, 2009

• Houston Stays Alive In Bid To Host Some World Cup Games

  ​A few years ago, Houston memorably (and hilariously) pushed hard to host a Summer Olympics. It had as much chance of landing one as it did a Winter Olympics, but the effort persevered nonetheless.We seem to have a better shot, however, at seeing some World Cup (that's soccer, you xenophobes) action.The U.S. is putting together a bid to host the Biggest Tournament In The World in either 2018 or 2022, and as part of the process they have to list potential stadiums to be used for the games.Today

  August 20, 2009

• The British Isles: Texas Haggis

  Photo by Robb Walsh​In photos, canned haggis looks alarmingly like dog food. It is traditionally eaten as part of a full Scottish breakfast or as an entrée on a bed of mashed rutabagas and potatoes, which go by the cutesy names of "neeps and tatties" in Scotland. I bought a can of Caledonian Haggis at the Rice Village store called the British Isles the other day. I'll file a full report on the flavor as soon as I get hooked up with some neeps and tatties. I had stopped by British Isles

  August 24, 2009

• Lone Star Scorecard: "God Blessed Texas," "Dracula From Houston" and "The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)"

  ​ You know the drill: every week we sift through several thousand songs (mostly) extolling the virtues of the Great State of Texas to bring you three that still manage to screw it up. And whether written by native sons or godless Yankee heathens, mistakes abound. Little Texas, "God Blessed Texas": The Arlington-based band scored a decent hit with this not-so-modest ode to the Lone Star State's surfeit of divine favor. Hey, we're fond of Texas too, but while we realize that even Dallas has to

  August 27, 2009

• Oklahoma Football Gets A Houston Radio Outlet; Aggies Still Out Of Luck

  ​As you'll remember from our post on 1560 The Game a few weeks ago, it was mentioned that the station was in negotiations with a Big 12 Conference school to air its football games this season. Now there was some speculation (and hope) in the comments that this team would be the Aggies. But just as the Aggies keep on losing on the playing field, they also keep on losing on the radio front.Chance McLain, 1560's program director, has confirmed to Hair Balls that starting on Saturday, the station

  September 1, 2009

• Obama, No Way. W And Some Dallas Cowboys? You Bet!

  ​Houston, whenever you worry the right-wing loons are making you look bad, take solace in this: There's always Dallas.North Texas was perhaps the country's capital of the awe-inspiring movement that kept schoolkids from hearing a president speak about staying in school. And the Dallas area played its part.The Arlington school district, for instance, refused to show Obama's speech, no doubt because it was a partisan attempt at political hackery disrupting the sanctity of the school day.Too bad

  September 9, 2009

• Obama Causes Kids To Miss Lifetime Dream Of Meeting Cowboys

  Photo courtesy White House Flickr group​Last week we told you about the Arlington school district, which refused to show President Obama's "stay in school" speech but was fine with busing hundreds of students to Cowboys Stadium to hear George W. Bush.It sounded odd to us, but then again we don't live in Arlington.Now, it appears, sanity -- or at least what passes for it up in the Metroplex -- has prevailed.The district announced today that the field trip to Cowboys Stadium was off. "In retrosp

  September 14, 2009

• U2 and Muse Set Lists from Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Monday

  Pete Freedman/ DC-9 at NightIndependence Day in Arlington? Nah, just U2's ginormous 360 "Claw" stage.​ It's a little less than 36 hours and counting until U2's 360 Tour stops at Reliant Stadium, and Rocks Off is starting to get excited. Really excited. Bono and the boys were in Arlington at Cowboys Stadium Monday night. "For about two hours, the U2 members sang and played with passionate precision," writes Mario Tarradell in the Dallas Morning News. "They backed up the spectacle with plenty of

  October 13, 2009

• Rocks Off's Self-Guided Tour of U2's Stage Setup, and Other Fun Stuff We Learned About the Most Gargantuan Tour In Rock History

  Photos by Groovehouse/ Click here for a slideshowYes, "The Claw" is really fookin' huge.​"At a certain point, the only thing you can compare it to is the Stones. I've done the Stones. This is bigger." That's Jake Berry, Production Director for U2's 360 Tour, talking about the gargantuan "Claw" configuration stagehands were in the final, well, stages of completing at Reliant Stadium Tuesday afternoon at a media preview of the tour. This "Claw" is one of three custom-built for the biggest t

  October 14, 2009